ALBUM REVIEWS FOR YOU TO PERUSE
Every couple of weeks I start to itch about all the great music we've been listening to (or bad music we can't wait to slag off) so here it is, another reviews blog for you to read and lol at. These here albums just happen to be some of the discs of shiny joy we've been spinning here at THQ in the past month.
ANIMALS AS LEADERS /TOSIN ABASI
‘Animals As Leaders’
PROSTHETIC
Do you remember Joe Satriani’s breakthrough albums ‘Surfing With The Alien’ and ‘Flying In A Blue Dream’? With the advances in modern shred-ology, where the once mind-boggling repertoire items like sweep-picked arpeggios are chewed up and spat out by teenagers, it’s no surprise to review Satch’s output of twenty years ago and think, “Yeah, they’re good, but not nearly as intensive as I remember.” It’s scary to think shredders will be looking at Tosin Abasi’s Animals As Leaders similarly a generation from now, because the former Reflux guitarist has set a standard with this incredible mix of Steve Vai flash, Eric Johnson soul, Fredrik Thorendahl off-kilter, beardy tubular bell prog and carpal tunnel inducing technicality. As he tackles adding bits of classical, sideways fusion, electronica and polyrhythmic tapping to his generally epic sounding tone and smart chord progressions, Abasi should have the folded arm set eyeing him with intense jealously once he brings this wizardry to the stage. Everyone else will just be wishing a singer was singing something.
[7.5] KEVIN STEWART-PANKO
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